A third of BitTorrent traffic stays local: Thirty-two percent of BitTorrent traffic stays in the country of origin and 49 percent of traffic is intra-domain or crosses a single peering or sibling network link.

BitTorrent traffic doesn’t usually hit the big backbone transit providers: That’s partly because it stays local and partly because the largest amount of BitTorrent traffic stays inside a local area network run by a hosting company or enterprise.

BitTorrent traffic occurs at the same time as peak web traffic and it’s growing: The old myth that BitTorrent users were up late at night seeding files has evolved and most users are sharing files during the day. Many are doing so during “peak traffic times,” which the researchers don’t disclose unless daytime means peak traffic time.

All of these things affect how much it costs ISPs to support BitTorrent traffic, and the study concludes that for Tier 1 providers, it doesn’t affect costs. Tier 2 providers such as major backbone companies or big ISPs actually make money from BitTorrent traffic, while smaller ISPs that buy wholesale access from larger ISPs are paying for rather than profiting from transit charges due to BitTorrent traffic. Corporate or campus networks that see the most traffic also tend to pay for the privilege, and the study finds BitTorrent is “incurring significant transit charges for these networks.

lol, juz go buy the thunder VIP member everything solve, use off line dl can max out ur dl spd

Guys,
recently I install Ares 2.1.7.3041
but, after a while I realized that my Ares is not connecting.
Is there any recommendation on how to fix this?
btw, I'm using broadband.
and my broadband doesn't block any sites as TM does.

Thanks.

I noticed that some torrent files I downloaded came with '_Padding files', what are these for?

Set P2P to only accept "Require Encryption" (force),
I can get high download speed over 900KB/s (8mbps streamyx) without VPN

I use qBittorrent

Nope, still got throttled.

How TM DPI throttling work:
1) Detect the pattern if user is uploading as well downloading from same peers.
2) If yes, then throttle the peer to 0kb/s unless it is local TM peers.
3) If only downloading without uploading to peers, then don't throttle.

As shown in your screenshot, you are not uploading.

I noticed that some torrent files I downloaded came with '_Padding files', what are these for?

-.- Bitcomet crap again?
As its name implied...padding = file with zero only, introduced in order to make it reach a desired size.
Ancient Bitcomet, Bitlord, Bitthief introduced it so that it works with their so called paid/premium VIP HTTP caching servers.

Okay, if that's the case, I can un-select these files when downloading, right? i mean, won't make my videos, games not able to play?

Set P2P to only accept "Require Encryption" (force),
I can get high download speed over 900KB/s (8mbps streamyx) without VPN

I use qBittorrent